Quotes About Serenity

Serenely full, the epicure would say,Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Essentially, he taught that it doesn't make sense to upset ourselves about what is beyond our control. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life. The only choice we have is our attitude about the cards we hold and the finesse with which we play our hand.

Don't just do something, sit there!

not doing anything to change experience but rather discovering that experience is bearable.

It is the only happiness now possible to me, to know that all is well with you

They had an assured income, nothing could disturb their calm.

But the overruling disconcertingness was to find himself unconcerned. It was as if some mysterious oil had been introduced into the workings of his mind. If a thought irked him, he thought of something else. If a project miscarried, a flooding serenity swept him beyond it. He lived a tranquil truant, dissociated from himself as though by a slight agreeable fever.

At these times she was subject to a peculiar kind of day-dreaming, so vivid as to be almost a hallucination: that she was in the country, at dusk, and alone, and strangely at peace. She did not recall the places which she had visited in holiday-time, these reproached her like opportunities neglected. But while her body sat before the first fires and was cosy with Henry and Caroline, her mind walked by lonely seaboards, in marshes and fens, or came at nightfall to the edge of a wood.

Sometimes these cogitations still amazeThe troubled midnight and the noon's repose.

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair—Lean on a garden urn—Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

Lying in a position of classic repose, Winnifred had never been more beautiful. Her silvery gold hair cascaded over the oaken door upon which she lay. A bright waterfall, it pooled on the deep green felt of the billiard table where the door rested. Her sightless blue eyes stared up at the plastered ceiling, her face a study in serenity and peace. I had never seen violent death leave a corpse so lovely.

Let go whatever burdens your soul and questions your peace of mind

I built my hut in a zone of human habitation,Yet near me there sounds no noise of horse or coach. Would you know how that is possible?A heart that is distant creates a wilderness around it.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.

El amor es como las mariposas:si tratas de alcanzarlas desesperadamente, se alejan; pero si te quedas quieto, se posan sobre ti".

Silence is true wisdom's reply.

The purpose of Buddhist practice is universal awakening, not dramatic experiences of opening any more than passive states of serenity.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.

Low grass and green moss covered soil that, come summer, would turn arid and cracked. Cyclamens peeked out from under the shelter of rocks, pink and shy as brides. Along the path, tall stalks of purple brush-head flowers swayed in the breeze like a flock of hooded priests on the Via Dolorosa.

When we accept as angelic gifts the restraints that are given to us, the result is equanimity.

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.